Editors:
- Focuses on affinities between mathematics and the arts
- Articulates common strains between the mathematical and the aesthetic
- Shows how the fundamentals are deeply related to human sense-making and learning
- Offers new possibilities for mathematics education
Part of the book series: CMS Books in Mathematics (CMSBM)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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A Historical Gaze at the Mathematical Aesthetic
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The Mathematician’s Art
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Front Matter
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A Sense for Mathematics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The essays in this book represent diverse reflections on attempts to ground the aesthetics that operate within mathematical practice and to account for their origins. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates; faculty." (D. V. Feldman, CHOICE, Vol. 44 (11), July, 2007)
“Mathematics and the Aesthetic is a heavy book. I mean this in the literal sense: at 288 pages, it weighs 721 grams. … high-quality paper is matched by a sense of attention to detail throughout. The color pictures are … well presented; the text is easy to read. … Enter Sinclair, Pimm, and Higginson. … assembled a group of scholars with diverse academic credentials: philosophers, math educators, and (yes) research mathematicians. … Mathematics and the Aesthetic is a thoughtful collection of essays … .” (Annalisa Crannell, Notices of the AMS, Vol. 56 (2), February, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education A235 McArthur Hall, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Nathalie Sinclair
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Department of Mathematics D216 Wells Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
David Pimm
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Department of Secondary Education 341 Education South, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
William Higginson
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mathematics and the Aesthetic
Book Subtitle: New Approaches to an Ancient Affinity
Editors: Nathalie Sinclair, David Pimm, William Higginson
Series Title: CMS Books in Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-38145-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-30526-4Published: 14 November 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-2144-4Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-38145-9Published: 28 December 2007
Series ISSN: 1613-5237
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4152
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 288
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mathematics, general